Acetobacterium wieringae (DSM 1911, ATCC 43740, JCM 2380)

Name: Acetobacterium wieringae (DSM 1911, ATCC 43740, JCM 2380)
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BacDive ID 5401

Type strain

Strain Designation C

Culture col. no. DSM 1911 ATCC 43740 JCM 2380 C

NCBI tax ID(s) 52694

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- M. Braun, Universität Göttingen, Germany; C <- M. Braun; {1978}

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Acetobacterium wieringae C is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from anaerobic sewage digester.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 71

LMG 7579,ATCC 43740,DSM 1911,JCM 2380,AS 1.2033,CGMCC 1.2033

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:57

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Eubacteriaceae

Genus Acetobacterium

Species Acetobacterium wieringae

Full scientific name Acetobacterium wieringae Braun and Gottschalk 1983

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
924	ACETOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 135)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACETOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 135) Composition: NaHCO3 9.79432 g/l D-Fructose 9.79432 g/l Yeast extract 1.95886 g/l NH4Cl 0.979432 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.489716 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.489716 g/l K2HPO4 0.440744 g/l KH2PO4 0.323213 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0587659 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.029383 g/l NaCl 0.0195886 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00979432 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00352595 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00352595 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00195886 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.00195886 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000587659 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000489716 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000391773 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.000195886 g/l H3BO3 0.000195886 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.000195886 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.79432e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.89716e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.89716e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.89716e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.89716e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.89716e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.89716e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.95886e-05 g/l Biotin 1.95886e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 7.83546e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 5.87659e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.79432e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
924	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

924

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Biodegradation	#Anaerobic digestor
#Engineered	#Waste	#Wastewater
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
924	anaerobic sewage digester	Göttingen	Germany	DEU	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence X96955 (>99% sequence identity) for Acetobacterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1132
Soil Samples	102
Animal Samples	647
Plant Samples	45
Total Samples	1926

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
924	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score	IMG accession
66792	Acetobacterium wieringae C	complete			52694	84.45	2690315663
66792	ASM176683v1 assembly for Acetobacterium wieringae DSM 1911	contig	GCA_001766835	52694.3	52694	64.28

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
924	A.wieringae 16S rRNA gene	X96955	1474		52694

GC content

924

GC-content (mol%)43.0

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Acetobacterium wieringae DSM 1911
NCBI: GCA_001766835

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	84.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	82.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	85.10	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	89.70	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acetobacterium wieringae strain DSM 1911
PATRIC: 52694.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	60.28	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	78.16	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	50.75	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	92.39	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	87.11	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	69.53	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Complete genome sequences of Acetobacterium wieringae strains Y and N, capable of conjugated diene biohydrogenation.	Jin H, Wang H, Wei H, Yang J, Liao H, Wang X, Zhang Y, Wang X, Wang J, Huang S, Yang S, Li X, Yan J, Yang Y.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00432-25	2025
	Developing a genetic engineering method for Acetobacterium wieringae to expand one-carbon valorization pathways.	Moreira JPC, Heap JT, Alves JI, Domingues L.	Biotechnol Biofuels Bioprod	10.1186/s13068-023-02259-6	2023
Enzymology	Evidence for a Putative Isoprene Reductase in Acetobacterium wieringae.	Kronen M, Vazquez-Campos X, Wilkins MR, Lee M, Manefield MJ.	mSystems	10.1128/msystems.00119-23	2023
Enzymology	Anaerobic Biohydrogenation of Isoprene by Acetobacterium wieringae Strain Y.	Jin H, Li X, Wang H, Capiro NL, Li X, Loffler FE, Yan J, Yang Y.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.02086-22	2022
Enzymology	H₂ Consumption by Various Acetogenic Bacteria Follows First-Order Kinetics up to H₂ Saturation.	Munoz-Duarte L, Chakraborty S, Gron LV, Bambace MF, Catalano J, Philips J.	Biotechnol Bioeng	10.1002/bit.28904	2025
	Metagenome-Assembled Genome Sequences of Acetobacterium sp. Strain MES1 and Desulfovibrio sp. Strain MES5 from a Cathode-Associated Acetogenic Microbial Community.	Ross DE, Marshall CW, May HD, Norman RS.	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomea.00938-17	2017
	Energy conservation under extreme energy limitation: the role of cytochromes and quinones in acetogenic bacteria.	Rosenbaum FP, Muller V.	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-021-01241-0	2021
Metabolism	Using gas mixtures of CO, CO₂ and H₂ as microbial substrates: the do's and don'ts of successful technology transfer from laboratory to production scale.	Takors R, Kopf M, Mampel J, Bluemke W, Blombach B, Eikmanns B, Bengelsdorf FR, Weuster-Botz D, Durre P.	Microb Biotechnol	10.1111/1751-7915.13270	2018
Metabolism	Propionate Production from Carbon Monoxide by Synthetic Cocultures of Acetobacterium wieringae and Propionigenic Bacteria.	Moreira JPC, Diender M, Arantes AL, Boeren S, Stams AJM, Alves MM, Alves JI, Sousa DZ	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/AEM.02839-20	2021
Phylogeny	Enrichment of Anaerobic Syngas-Converting Communities and Isolation of a Novel Carboxydotrophic Acetobacterium wieringae Strain JM.	Arantes AL, Moreira JPC, Diender M, Parshina SN, Stams AJM, Alves MM, Alves JI, Sousa DZ	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.00058	2020
Genetics	Genome Sequence of the Acetogenic Bacterium Acetobacterium wieringae DSM 1911T.	Poehlein A, Bengelsdorf FR, Schiel-Bengelsdorf B, Daniel R, Durre P	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.01430-16	2016

References

#924	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1911
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Acetobacterium wieringae (DSM 1911, ATCC 43740, JCM 2380)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001766835

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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